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Experimental surgeries to prevent seizures may help scientists understand the link between autism and epilepsy.

A whole-genome study has provided new clues to inheritance patterns in autism and implicated 16 new genes in the condition.

A new analysis challenges the idea that mutations in the sperm of older fathers lead to higher rates of autism among their children.

Autism traits are recorded predominantly by clinicians with their own subjective biases. Can technology do a better — and more objective — job?

A new autism map suggests that most regions in the United States do not have a local autism diagnostic center or specialist.

A drug that treats tumors and epilepsy in people with tuberous sclerosis complex does not boost their intelligence or treat autism traits.

Sleep problems may contribute to autism's underlying biology — a connection that scientists can study in animal models.

The loss of 21 genes on chromosome 3 may substantially raise the risk of autism.

How much behavioral therapy does an autistic child need? People tend to believe that, regardless of the treatment, more is always better. But is it?

Children with autism are often clumsy, physically awkward or uncoordinated. This understudied and nearly ubiquitous feature has researchers contemplating a new idea: Could motor problems be one source of autism’s social difficulties?

The brain areas involved in mice's ultrasonic vocalizations may not be the same as those that govern human speech.

A comprehensive review has found no scientific basis for a controversial autism communication method that supposedly helps autistic people communicate.

An experimental drug that muffles the activity of neurons in the skin moderates heightened reactions to touch in six mouse models of autism.

L’apprentissage automatique (machine learning) présente une possibilité pour aider les cliniciens à repérer l'autisme plus tôt, mais des obstacles techniques et éthiques demeurent.

Mikle South spends his days teaching classes, studying the relationship between anxiety and autism, and coping with living in a conservative state.